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 @d21c1652 @0c1a9324 didn't Bob end up with his office in room 418 at one point? 
 @54b144c3 @0c1a9324 quite possibly and I've likely forgotten.  I read up to The Nightmare Stacks and then took a long multiyear break for some reason, then this year I finally went "Oh yeah shit I should go back" and just finished The Delirium Brief which was a lot of fun.

Time will tell if I keep going or get distracted again before returning to the next one, I am currently spoilt for excellent book choices which is the situation we should all aim to be in I guess. 
 @d21c1652 @54b144c3 "The Delirium Brief" got a re-write right after the Brexit referendum fiasco, and the subsequent books ("The Labyrinth Index" and the New Management trilogy) are *all* about the fallout from Brexit, through a Lovecraftian lens. All hail the New Management! Strong and Stable! Iä! Iä! 
 @0c1a9324 @54b144c3 what fresh horrors I will turn my gaze upon.  My third eye looking ever inwards to the darkness at the heart of these isles.

But also yeah I can see it giving a potential for snacky bureaucratic horror.

I must say on the political snark front reading "The Home Secretary isn't on the guest list - she's probably at home in her burrow, laying eggs in a paralysed illegal immigrant or something" I felt spoilt for choice about who was being parodied from the last decade. 
 @d21c1652 @54b144c3 At the time it was Theresa May: I had no idea of the horrors lying in store for us later on! 
 @54b144c3 @d21c1652 Yep, I'm pretty sure that was a thing. (Can't remember which book, though. There are a lot of HTTP error codes embedded in the Laundry Files 🤡)